A ship named the Swallow sank in its moorings at Paimboeuf in the later half of 1653, being 19 years old, and 2 years in the tropics without docking. It had sailed to the West Indies and back with Prince Rupert and Robert Holmes, and survived a hurricane.

HMS SwallowGainsborough was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Navy, originally built under the 1652 programme for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Thomas Taylor at Pitch House (Wapping), and launched in 1653. She was named for the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Gainsborough in 1643.